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After making the biggest debut in Taco Bell history nearly one year ago, the critically-acclaimed Nacho Fries return to menus today for a limited time. Challenging the traditional french fry paradigm, Nacho ...

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, introduces their enhanced FMAlert™ software for VERYX® digital sorters. FMAlert captures and saves digital images of foreign material (FM) contaminants and ...

Pepsico announced today the appointment of Vivek Sankaran as CEO of Frito-Lay North America. Kirk Tanner, will become CEO of North America Beverages. Both Vivek Sankaran and Kirk Tanner served as President ...

Ishida’s longstanding experience in the development of snacks packaging solutions has been the critical factor in enabling one of the Czech Republic’s leading snacks manufacturers to achieve the high packing speeds required ...

Leading handling equipment manufacturer for potatoes and vegetables, Tong Engineering, has announced a number of key new appointments as part of an ongoing commitment to its growing customer base. Edward Tong, Managing ...

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, introduces the newest automatic defect removal system for potato strips – ADR EXOS™ – at Interpom booth #257. As the only ...

Food businesses will have to change to stay competitive – online, in-store, and at sorting and processing plants too. Technologies and Trends shaping the Supermarket of the Future Bjorn Thumas, Director Business ...

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 165.4 points in September 2018, down 2.3 points (1.4 Percent) from August and some 13 points (7.4 percent) below its level in the corresponding period last year. ...

Rezatec - a UK based company focused on the analysis and interpretation of satellite data - has in collaboration with AHDB Potatoes investigated the effectiveness of using satellite data to map the ...

In Belgium, the continuing drought and especially the extreme heat is increasingly disastrous for the upcoming potato harvest and threatens to cause havoc for processors as well. Chips manufacturer Roger&Roger (Croky): already ...

PepsiCo, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Ramon Laguarta, 54, to succeed Indra K. Nooyi, 62, as Chief Executive Officer. Nooyi will step down on October 3rd ...

Cavendish Farms announced today that they will be focusing on the frozen potato processing business on Prince Edward Island due to the limited availability of raw product (potatoes). The decision will result ...

Dutch cold chain logistics provider NewCold is investing $90 million to build a 140-foot-high, 25 million-cubic-foot sub-zero cold storage warehouse in Burley, Idaho.The new warehouse will be one of the largest frozen ...

Tubers were the talk of the town in Cusco, Peru during the week of May 27, when the 10th World Potato Congress (WPC) and the 28th Congress of the Latin American Potato ...

Resson, a predictive analytics company for the agricultural industry, has announced a $14 million Series C up round of financing that welcomed Mahindra & Mahindra as a strategic partner. The Indian conglomerate ...

Last Friday 4 May, the European potato community gathered in Brussels for the Europatat Congress 2018. Under the slogan “Potatoes: a healthy, sustainable and responsible sector”, the annual event focused on the many ...

Ishida Europe has introduced an internal moisture sensor and monitoring system for its latest multihead weighers, which will enable fresh and frozen food producers to more easily control and prevent water ingress ...

Potatoes may, in many ways, be the perfect candidate for precision agriculture.They’re a high-volume, high-value and high-input crop and the industry has already invested more than other sectors in soil and drainage ...

With the development of proportional product distribution and On-Machine Seasoning (OMS) systems, food processors now have the tools to perfectly season their products. OMS moves seasoning application from the production floor to ...

Branston is now one of the biggest potato suppliers in the UK. The company, with three well positioned sites, to give easy access to the best potato crops in Lincoln, Ilminster and Perth, supplies fresh and ...

How potatoes are treated during the washing process is crucial for the fresh pack and particularly for small and fragile specialty products. Tummers is known for its high capacity and accurate destoning and ...

The food business is hugely dependent on consumer demands and processors, while equipment manufacturers must adapt accordingly to stay ahead of the game. Andre Erasmus examines some changes and adaptations that have taken place ...

The German food company Wernsing Feinkost GmbH, based in Addrup-Essen near Oldenburg, seals 6,000 bags of potato specialties per hour in a production system with 2 x 16 ultrasonic sealing heads. The ...

Tummers, the machinery provider for potato processing, developed a washing line for the very fragile and small delicacy potato called “La Ratte” (pictured), which has a diameter ranging between ø10mm and ø70 ...

May was a very cool, cloudy and wet month, which is having all kinds of repercussions now and into the summer for field crops. Gordon Johnson and Kate Everts talked about some of ...